Despite numerous hours of talks over the past two months, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy ordered layoff notices to start going out Tuesday because no deal has been reached between his administration and the state employee unions.
Malloy had been warning workers...

Many believe that poor people deserve to be poor because they're lazy. As House Speaker John Boehner has said, the poor have a notion that "I really don't have to work. I don't really want to do this. I think I'd rather just sit around."
In reality, a...

Likely Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley says it's "shameful" for Republicans to support an Indiana law that critics see as legalizing discrimination against gays and lesbians.
The former Maryland governor criticized 2016 Republican...

Republicans and liberal Democrats have something in common: Both are trying to keep alive the prospect that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will run for president.
Warren isn't playing along, making the rounds this week to — yet again —...

President Barack Obama on Tuesday vetoed a measure passed by the Republican-run Congress blocking the National Labor Relations Board from streamlining the process for union elections, saying government should not make it harder for workers to be heard in the workplace.
Obama also announced a fall White House summit on worker rights.
The NLRB rule, set to take effect on April 14, would shorten the amount of time between when an election is called and when it is held by eliminating a 25-day waiting...

As negotiations continue over Iran's nuclear program, Americans are receptive to talks but skeptical about their ultimate success, several new polls show.
By 49%-40%, Americans approve of the idea of negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program, according to a new poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
And by nearly 2-1, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll, the public backs the general concept behind an agreement -- that the U.S. and other countries "would lift major economic sanctions...

Police investigating the apparent suicide of the Missouri auditor's spokesman plan to reveal Tuesday the contents of a note that he left behind.
Spence Jackson was found dead Sunday in his Jefferson City apartment of what police have described as an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. His death came about a month after Jackson's boss, state Auditor Tom Schweich, fatally shot himself at his home in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton.
Jefferson City police scheduled a Tuesday afternoon news conference to talk...

TALLAHASSEE -- The general counsel of the Republican Party of Florida is part of a legal team selected to represent Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet in their fight against allegations of violating the Sunshine Law in the ouster of former Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey.
Scott and the Cabinet -- Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam -- unanimously selected the Tallahassee office of Shutts &...

NEW BRITAIN - The Republican Town Committee will hold its monthly meeting on April 7.
The session begins at 7 p.m. in Room 504 of city hall at 27 W. Main St.
The committee is preparing for the November municipal elections.

I am no fan of President Barack Obama. I have been openly critical of him, particularly of his foreign policy. I think he has led this country in the wrong direction, both when he could reign unopposed during his first two years backed by a full Democratic majority and when we, Republicans, let him continue to do so through a mostly ineffective, divided opposition.
I am a critic both of his policies and his failure to seek genuine compromise across the aisle. And personally, I would not go out of my way...